Look at the other markets as well. Weve got the nasdaq, the russell, and dow transports for everybody to keep an eye on. The nasdaq having a great session, um 1. 25 . Good enough to puck it back at 5,043 for the level the. The russell, the small caps doing pretty well, up almost 1 or 11 points. The transports are lagging a bit, up half a percent. They have suffered this year, especially, coming back a lit there will. In the midst of all this real action, there was a seemingly phony bid for avon. Halted shares of the cosmetic maker. More on that story later. What a crazy story that was midday at the New York Stock Exchange. Lets get to our closing bell exchange, talk about this rally the Economic Data, and a lot of other things. Heather hughes from sun america funds joins us today. Jacob jordan from hd best Financial Services with us, jason tried from glen meade is out there and so is Rick Santelli. Rick, youve established that you believe the rising yields in the treasuryies is what yo
U. S. But europe playing catch up to yesterdays rally. The gains over there, about 1 . Pmis looked pretty good too. Oil settling back after rising 9 of the past 11 days. Tip years around 1. 91. The first rate hike shouldnt come until the second half of next year. The deal in delivery space. Fedex buying tnt express for 4. 8 billion. Thats a deal that u. P. S. Failed at just two years ago. We do have the ceo of fedex coming up in a couple of minutes. Speaking of deals, also the largest lbo of the year informatica taken private, 5. 3 billion. Samsung sees profits plunging 30 but still better than what the street was expecting, as apple ramps up the release of the apple watch coming in the next few weeks. First up fedex make ago move to boost its presence in europe. The company agreeing to acquire dutch Package Delivery firm tnt express for 4. 8. The deal comes two years after u. P. S. attempt was blocked by european regulators. Well talk with fedex chairman and ceo fred smith this hour.
Outbreak . We speak to the companys ceo, coming up. Also lyft you know, lyft are raising another 150 million right now, the majority coming from carl icahn. Coming up well discuss how much this cash and icahns name can help lyft compete with uber. More of those puns are awaiting us. The story today, bill that has everybody talking from Silicon Valley to back here on wall street. What are carl icahns intentions and what does it signal about the prospects for these two in the markets . Exactly. The dow, well start with the blue chips there, up about 3 points. The s p roughly flat. Remember yesterday with the close of 2121. That was a new alltime high for the index. The dow is still 30 points away from where it needs to be. 18,288 is the number we need to keep an eye out for. 33 points shy at the moment. The nasdaq slightly under pressure and still has a few points to go as well if it wants a new high water mark. This is the third friday of the month, therefore, it is expiration day as we
The 17,000 mark, we should add. Pressure across the other indexes as well. The s p 500 up almost 10 points to 1,978 aramafteramaicing new this week. And remember, amazon is about 13 of the nasdaq 100. Lets get more on what was wrong with visa and its responsibility for a lot of the dows decline today. Heres Mary Thompson with that story. Mary . Hey, there, bill. Visa is off the lows of the session, but the Payments Processing giants stock is the biggest loser among the dow 30, this after the company lowered its revenue forecast for the full year. The strong dollar and decline in crossborder payments revenue, payments made in one country and used in another, behind the lowered outlook. The crossborder business impacted by unrest in the ukraine and rising political tensions with russia. Heres cfo Byron Pollitt on yesterdays Conference Call. We see no signs yet of any acceleration in economic recovery and crossborder volume growth remains soft in the midsingle digits. Visa earned betterth
So were watching that closely. Take a look at the tenyear note yield, which this morning is down to 249, below 250. Well talk about that as well today. As for europe, heres how the picture is setting up. Mostly red on the board for the most part except for spain is in the green, one of the few bright spots over there. Our road map starts this morning with amazon shares, down sharply premarket after posting a wider than expected loss, while continuing to spend on new products and technology. Starbucks beating the street. A live and exclusive interview with Ceo Howard Schultz coming up. In another exclusive interview with cnbc, president obama weighing in on Companies Looking to cut their tax bills with overseas deals. And visa falling premarket. Were going to explain why. How about amazon . Reporting a much wider than expected Second Quarter loss of 27 cents a share. This as the Company Continues to spend on new services, technology and products. Amazon predicting further losses in the